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Oh yes, it will be all about St. Vincent. I did the right thing by going all out all for a few of Coachella’s greatest ever / most dream-like performances: watched in full Daft Punk in 2006 (by not completing Depeche Mode’s set), Stromae (over St. Vincent in 2015) and Royksopp (over Moderat last year). DEAR GV/Paul T., JUST STOP IT.

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After spending the night thinking about the lineup, this quote leaves me angrier and more bewildered the more I think about it.

"And, with Queen Bey set to headline in 2018, Tollett had an early shot at finally coming up with the immaculate lineup he had always dreamed of. At least, he allowed, “it will give me a chance to experiment with some other bookings.”

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Originally Posted by concertgoer

And not trying to book The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork....

The YYY's in particular is perplexing; didn't GV put on their Fever To Tell anniversary show? I wonder if the IHeartRadio ALTer Ego fest just threw a ton of money at The National and Spoon to get them over Coachella...I

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Originally Posted by theklein25

Do you even go to Coachella? Look at the last 5 years

I do, and again, name a big name Dj on the top lines that is at the top of The Ultra lineup and EDC. There are none this year. I dont see Afrojack, Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade, Deadmau5, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell etc anywhere on this poster, or do you have a different version.

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Originally Posted by Pea

After spending the night thinking about the lineup, this quote leaves me angrier and more bewildered the more I think about it.

"And, with Queen Bey set to headline in 2018, Tollett had an early shot at finally coming up with the immaculate lineup he had always dreamed of. At least, he allowed, “it will give me a chance to experiment with some other bookings.”

I said this earlier as well; he’s established this particular festival as an instant sellout so why even make that remark?
I’m still going so I’m obviously not that furious but I can’t commit to presale for 2019: another buyer can/will gladly take my place

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Originally Posted by nyarlathotoats

I said this earlier as well; he’s established this particular festival as an instant sellout so why even make that remark?
I’m still going so I’m obviously not that furious but I can’t commit to presale for 2019: another buyer can/will gladly take my place

Thing is, "it will give me a chance to experiment" could mean any number of things. Could mean he tried to get some weird stuff and wasn't able to secure it for one reason or another. Could mean "I don't need to fret about subheadliners as much." Could mean "this can be the year we finally move away from big name EDM." We interpreted it to mean, like, Aphex Twin. But hard to know what "experimenting with bookings" means to PT in the context of the AEG partnership. Still, it was a dumb comment that he probably just made off the cuff to put a positive spin on her backing out and later regretted.

Originally Posted by WhyTheLongFace

I wonder if that’s more Coachella moving away from that, the general public moving away or EDC being in May now.

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I think it's all three, plus the reality that the Sahara tent had simply gotten too big.

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Originally Posted by superfan

I do, and again, name a big name Dj on the top lines that is at the top of The Ultra lineup and EDC. There are none this year. I dont see Afrojack, Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade, Deadmau5, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell etc anywhere on this poster, or do you have a different version.

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Originally Posted by superfan

I do, and again, name a big name Dj on the top lines that is at the top of The Ultra lineup and EDC. There are none this year. I dont see Afrojack, Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade, Deadmau5, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell etc anywhere on this poster, or do you have a different version.

While I'm not loving this year's lineup overall, I do love Saturday, and the absence of the names you list above is a positive, not a negative, as much as I'm not into where Hip Hop/Alt R&B are right now, when it comes to live performance I'll take hip hop/Alt R&B over knob twiddlers any day of the week

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Originally Posted by superfan

I do, and again, name a big name Dj on the top lines that is at the top of The Ultra lineup and EDC. There are none this year. I dont see Afrojack, Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade, Deadmau5, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell etc anywhere on this poster, or do you have a different version.

I dont see Afrojack, Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade, Deadmau5, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell

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Gov ball has Gaslight Anthem, the menzingers, japandroids, sylvan esso. All bands i'd go see before pretty much anyone in this year's coachella lineup.

Even my 18yr old cousin thinks the lineup sucks so not sure who they are going after.

If you're interested in those bands over St Vincent, the War on Drugs, Jamiroquai, David Byrne, Chic, Soulwax, or countless others, have fun at Gov Ball. The only one of those thats a real bummer to me to miss out on is Gaslight Anthem, and that's only because they're playing the 59 Sound.